Why John McCain’s experience as a war veteran matters
Since the story of Obama surrogate Wesley Clark’s second dis of John McCain’s military service first broke, there’s been an eruption in commentary within the punditocracy and the blogosphere. The right correctly points out that Clark went beyond just saying being a war veteran doesn’t automatically qualify you to be president and went for the jugular by downplaying what McCain went through (for example, Clark said McCain was “riding” in the aircraft, not piloting it, and also mocked McCain’s getting shot down), while the left is trying to claim that Clark didn’t do any of the latter.